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Should I start Samaje Perine or Tyler Goodson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 22, 1:46 AM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

RB · CIN · at BAL

Market projects
5.9
fantasy pts
BAL D vs RB
18.5
6th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Rising
74 of 100 at RB
Snap share
37%
Through Week 5
Target share
5%
Through Week 5
Sit

RB · DAL · at PHI

Market projects
3.1
recent weeks avg
PHI D vs RB
20.5
16th fewest to RBs (2026)
Snap share
14%
Through Week 6
Target share
3%
Through Week 6
Start Perine or Goodson? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Samaje Perine: 39 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tyler Goodson's 14 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB30 · CIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
6.1 pts a game

RB · DAL · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Overall rank
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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Tyler Goodson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

Samaje Perine's market-based projection is 6.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Tyler Goodson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 37 percent of CIN snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Tyler Goodson has been on the field for 14 percent of DAL snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against HOU he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Goodson played 11 games and scored 5.2 PPR points, 0.5 a game, finishing RB121.

He carried 9 times for 24 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 8 more yards.

That came to 0.8 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Samaje Perine was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Tyler Goodson 0.5, 4.7 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Tyler Goodson RB121.

Samaje Perine had 75 more carries than Tyler Goodson, 84 to 9.

Samaje Perine had 15 more catches than Tyler Goodson, 17 to 2.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 37 percent against 14 percent.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 25 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Samaje Perine is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Tyler Goodson.

What would change the answer

Tyler Goodson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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